“Like all the pandemic waves that preceded it, this one will also be self-limiting“. The forecast is that” within a couple of weeks the number of “covid” cases will peak and then begin to decline. “This was stated by Undersecretary of Health Pierpaolo Sileri, who spoke this morning at ‘Italy has awakened ‘on Radio Cusano Campus, and subsequently on’ Mattina 24 ‘on RaiNews24.
“The current increase in infections, therefore, should not alarm us too much – added Sileri – also because the level of hospitalizations in medical areas and intensive care, while increasing, remains largely under control. We are in a very different situation. from that of last year, compared to which we are faced today with a much more contagious virus, but less ‘bad’ from a clinical point of view, and a population that in the meantime has already built up extensive immune defenses against the virus, either naturally with infection or artificially with vaccines, or both. ”
Sileri recalled that updated vaccines will arrive after the summer that will also cover the Omicron variant, but stressed that “the vaccines currently available, even if they do not fully cover against Omicron variant infection, drastically reduce the risk of severe disease. So it is definitely wrong, in a situation of high viral circulation like the current one, to postpone the fourth dose and wait for the updated version of the vaccine after the summer. In October with the updated vaccines we will have another weapon available for those who are more at risk, and it is likely that the recommendation for the over 60s will be extended, together with a strong recommendation for the use of the mask indoors, but already now the level of the fourth doses must be increased in the population most at risk “.
The protection of fragile people from Covid contagion can also be achieved in the workplace, even using smart working and “there is no need for a general rule, flexibility and the ability to find solutions on a case-by-case basis”, Sileri stressed.
“We must distinguish between the public and private sectors. For the private sector – added Sileri – the ministry can act as a facilitator of agreements between employers’ and trade union organizations, which take into account contingent epidemiological situations and the individual conditions of workers. Public administration, which today provides for the prevalence of face-to-face work as a rule, the situations of fragile workers must be managed with elasticity and without excesses of bureaucracy, also in this case based on the trend of the general situation and the individual conditions of the workers, safeguarding the objective of guaranteeing the functionality of the offices with maximum security “.
“At the Maneskin concert? I would go there, but with a mask“, said the Undersecretary of Health.
“It is clear – he explained – that a concert with thousands of people determines an increase in risk, also given the wide viral circulation in recent days. But I believe that today the priorities are other, especially the protection of the most vulnerable people, to which we must strongly recommend the use of protective devices and above all the completion of the fourth doses, on which unfortunately we are still behind “.
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